On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 03:02:22PM +0000, Paul wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 13:00 +0000, Fedora Extras repoclosure wrote: > > epylog-1.0.3-4.fc6.noarch requires python(abi) = 0:2.4 > > <snip> > > It's easier to say - if it needs Python, it's bust! Wouldn't you (not Paul, but "you" in general ;) wish all packages to have been rebuilt based on disttag bump? E.g. from fc6.89 to fc6.89.1? That would had been some packages too much (e.g. all non-python packages), but who really cares about bandwidth and rawhide. Instead we have manual mass rebuilds again, and we need to wait for cascaded builds - for example for smart I need kdebindings, so my manual rebuild has to wait on kdebindings' manual rebuild, and perhaps that waits on setuptool's manual rebuild and so on. Did I mention that these are all manual rebuilds? That a disttag controlled mass rebuild could have avoided? :( Anyway there was a suggestion by the packaging group to use disttags of fc6.89 etc to use in such situations, but it was turned down by the fedora core release manager and consequently didn't manage to make it in fedora extras. Too bad IMHO, and perhaps the FC7 cycle will make people rethink about it. P.S. nothing against mass rebuilds, that's what rawhide is for. But please let's not burn contributors' time on manual rebuilds, especially when they need to wait for the BRs to rebuild, too. :( -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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